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Old 02-17-2010, 06:15 PM
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One of the Iles de la Manche, perhaps?
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Old 02-17-2010, 06:23 PM
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Never mind.
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Old 02-17-2010, 07:00 PM
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Old 02-17-2010, 07:13 PM
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Never mind.
Hoyt, thanks
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Old 02-18-2010, 01:43 AM
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I had never found it, although I was pretty close in my search using Goggle Earth.
Good teaser Tiny and well done Crag.

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Old 02-18-2010, 04:05 AM
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No, I'm more than happy with the teaser:

"I am a Navigation Aid,
my signal has led many to give me a name,
a name that's a term of endearment that many use because the signal has the flash of the numbers of words in that endearment
I am quite famous, [even?] in North America."
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Old 02-18-2010, 05:21 AM
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are you talking about a lighthouse Stuart?
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Old 02-18-2010, 07:14 AM
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Well done guys, especially Crag - did you recognise it or did the clue give it away?

navigational aids now....
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Old 02-18-2010, 07:33 AM
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Crag - did you recognise it or did the clue give it away
Anchored off, but couldn't get the boat to settle well enough to go ashore.
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Old 02-18-2010, 04:11 PM
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Hoyt, thanks
Thanks for what?
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Thanks for what?
read your PM
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Old 02-18-2010, 04:40 PM
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Oh, ok.
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Old 02-20-2010, 07:16 PM
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ok nobody wants, ok fair enough term endearment I LOVE YOU 1 4 3 flash Minots light
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Old 02-21-2010, 06:45 AM
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OK, south of Boston that is?
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Minot's Ledge Light
Minot's Ledge Light - Minot light in a storm
Minot light in a storm
Location: Offshore Scituate, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°16′11.27″N 70°45′33.46″W / 42.2697972°N 70.7592944°W / 42.2697972; -70.7592944Coordinates: 42°16′11.27″N 70°45′33.46″W / 42.2697972°N 70.7592944°W / 42.2697972; -70.7592944
Year first lit: 1850 / 1860
Automated: 1947
Deactivated: 1851 / -
Foundation: Stone ledge
Construction: Iron / Granite
Tower shape: pile / conical
Height: 97 feet tower, 85 feet (26 m) above sea level.
Original lens: second-order Fresnel lens
Range: 10 nmi (19 km) as per the USCG lights list
Characteristic: Flashing white (1-4-3) 45s with the following pattern(fl=on(flash), ec=off(eclipse)): 1.5s fl 5s ec. 1.5s fl 1.5s ec. 1.5s fl 1.5s ec. 1.5s fl 1.5s ec. 1.5s fl 5s ec. 1.5s fl 1.5s ec. 1.5s fl 1.5s ec. 1.5s fl 15.5s ec. HORN: 1 blast ev 10s (1s bl).
Minot's Ledge Light as seen from a passing sailing vessel

Minot's Ledge Light is a lighthouse located on Minot's Ledge, one mile offshore of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate, to the south of Boston Harbor, in the US state of Massachusetts. The current lighthouse is the second on the site, the first having been washed away in a storm after only a few months of use...

The first lighthouse

In 1843, lighthouse inspector I. W. P. Lewis compiled a report on Minot's Ledge, showing that over 40 vessels had been lost due to the ledge from 1832 to 1841, with serious loss of life and damage to property. The most dramatic incident was the sinking of a ship with ninety-nine Irish immigrants, who all drowned within sight of their new home land. It was initially proposed to build a lighthouse similar to John Smeaton's pioneering Eddystone Lighthouse, situated off the south-west coast of England. However Captain William H. Swift, put in charge of planning the tower, believed it impossible to build such a tower on the mostly submerged ledge. Instead he successfully argued for an iron pile light, a spidery structure drilled into the rock.[2]

The first Minot's Ledge Lighthouse was built between 1847 and 1850, and was lighted for the first time on January 1, 1850. One night in April 1851, the new lighthouse was struck by a major storm which caused damage throughout the Boston area. The following day only a few bent pilings were found on the rock. The two assistant keepers who were tending the lighthouse at the time both perished....
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